Gautier de Metz

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Illustration of the spherical earth in a manuscript of the Image du monde (14th century)

Gautier de Metz (also: Gauthier , Gossuin and Gossouin , Walther von Metz ) was a French priest and poet.

Around 1246 he wrote L'Image du monde , a treatise on creation, earth and space in poetry, in which facts are mixed with fantasy. One chapter deals with astrology . The work was translated into many languages in the Middle Ages and some pictures were added.

HP Lovecraft mentions him and L'Image du monde in his work The Nameless City (1921).

Barbara Tuchman mentions him and L'Image du monde in her work Der ferne Spiegel - the dramatic 14th century (1978).

literature

  • Franz Fritsche: Investigation of the sources of the "image du monde" of Walther von Metz . Halle 1880 (dissertation, University of Halle / Saale, 1880).
  • Gustav Haase: Investigation of the rhymes in the "image du monde" of Walther von Metz . Harras, Halle / Saale 1879.
  • Oliver H. Prior (Ed.): L'image du monde de maître Gossouin. Rédaction en prose. Texts du manuscrit de la Bibliothèque Nationale fonds francais no 574. Lausanne / Paris 1913 (critical edition of the text; dissertation, University of Lausanne).
  • Oliver H. Prior (Ed.): Caxton's "Mirrour of the world". Oxford University Press, London 1966 (repr. Of the London 1913 edition).